Determining sources of reactive mercury compounds in Reno, Nevada, United States

University of Nevada, Reno

This professional paper is composed of three projects: the parallel computation in computational chemistry, the RP-EM-MKL algorithm in pattern recognition, and scientific data visualization. In the first project, the parallel program on the trajectory simulation of N2 + NO collision system was implemented using MPI. High efficiency was obtained and parallel computation could significantly decre...

Reno, Nevada Smart Policing Initiative

Presented 1999 APCG Meeting , Reno , Nevada

DOROTHY ALBRIGHT Fire Response GIS Application Geographic information system (GIS) support for the Incident Command System (ICS) has been evolving over the past several years. The U.S. Forest Service and Firefighting Resources of California Organized for Potential Emergencies (FIRESCOPE) are spearheading an effort to create a standard approach to the problem. The result is an application design...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Public Diplomacy and its Institutions in United States of America

Although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. The most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the US, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as Public Diplomacy and to follow local and international ...